Jason, did you try
pip install --upgrade setuptools

as a first step?  Are you running on a special setup such as a patchwork
virtual machine being served to you on a thinclient with f**ed permissions?

Cheers,
Nick M.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:38 AM Jason Matusiak <
ja...@gardettoengineering.com> wrote:

> > Hi Marcus, The reason I went with sudo was because it was erroring out if
> I didn't:
>
> > $ pip install -I --user pybombs
> > Collecting pybombs
> >   Using cached PyBOMBS-2.2.0.tar.gz
> >     Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
>
> > /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution
> option: 'entry_points'
>
> >       warnings.warn(msg)
>
> > /usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py:267: UserWarning: Unknown distribution
> option: 'install_requires'
>
> >       warnings.warn(msg)
> >     usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
> >        or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
> >        or: -c --help-commands
> >        or: -c cmd --help
> >
> >     error: invalid command 'egg_info'
> >
> >     ----------------------------------------
>
> > Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in
> /tmp/pip-build-FJfz9W/pybombs/
>
> I am still stuck at this stage. Assuming I am dead in the water, what is
> the next best (approved) way of installing GnuRadio?  Doing it by hand from
> the github clone?
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